The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-04 00:00:00

per • TO COIiRESPONDI Ws hope to be able to gratify mil. Readers with the WV, rtna I otter ct Deem's To-rnorrow. •• To the opinions of our COrresponklent, R lirirhru fi'itebol(kr. (r) itibjad to . which his Letter refers, we heartily . sub, s.:T;he, but con,iirter it as much better suited lot ion ol Ow AT roniaey-Getria AL than any reprobation'eli our pat. • A 3 Lo— t Dublin. I u Gottenburgh, i Dublin, • PRICE OF STOCKS :•:: -slits DAY AT -4-wri.v.);, : c,!ci.pcic. Consols.l - 64 I Red. Alin. - 63* T. RE SUN. J (j , saLoi vitt I):CF.k.Z FALSithl AUDIATA:.! L 0 N D 0 v , IqONDAI', ,JANUARY 4, 18b8. , W's .arc extreibely sorry to state; th:it the Expe- sunder the command of Sir C. COTTON 113 S ' b cli compvile,l, yiolent and there wads, to r , turn to Faimouth. The Fleet encountered a most gale 'on ttie 27111 ult. IT'which it 'was in'a gr , at di% , rol:(.l . .qperseci. The Illinotaur, Sir C. COT- ToN, the Antelope, rind about twenty other Tt'ans- T,t,rt: , art ut kalroo , th, on Thurolay. • TIII:RE 14 reaSegl' tobeliev4 that the Sytate French Frigate; which 'was block:tded so Yong in the Chesa: sutceeded in'reaching either a FrenCh or bpanish Port. She captured a small Vessetibound from Lisbon to Falmouth some time n, and as: she has not been heard of since, there eb r i tirs little doubt but that sho: got safe into Port. Thii:Sgbelle escaped from the Chesapeake about th e e beginning of November. . The Decree of the French Government,. which. we inserted in obi. Paper. of Saturday,. is ., couched in the same style Of 'virnlene"e, and -feunded upon theseine tintetuza.misrepresentation and falsehood which charaacrise the measures of BUONAP.ARTI2, on points especially in which he is foiltitt by the OnMormrdahle 4rictrwhc has liiti:erta Mit with. 131.10NAPARTS is nut quite consistent in,- his te- V:cs of abase; In the Deoree of November, tsaq, lielaid the principal stress upon the - prAice of nig- Jond . m.ith respe6lto nehiides ;he now charges with h a yhig• " availed ourselves of the intik- ' 1 T3 ,,c(i of Governments, to emablish the infamous prin that theFlagOf a Nationdoes not Cover goods." his :Ft rather injorliCious. It'isan undeniable fad; ad mitted indeed by SCIIt.EGEL, MAnTENs, and other . Nentral Advocateq, that the. principle that " free ;civil>;;4 wake free, g 0045," wati an innovation. upon the'necient Nlariiinietaw3,introdeeed in the seven- . Acesith centurY, by the, Ditch. They only pretend, ab.4dly enough, that most: other, nations having , found it expedient. for temporary, ptirposek, to follovi the Dutch in thisprinciple',gngland . 4,l3oand: by the law of nature and nations to add beficonsent.. 'No . :Cauntry is more interested in establishirtg the modern principle than Atherica ; yet her Statesmen have .uniformly admitted, that .the against their interest in this respea - , although .they have laboufea,to obtain stipulations of, the, freedom of the Slag. in their Treaties, and did obtain it as an in dulgence from France 'in 1778 : and 'kW). , Tnese facts arc easily proved-by a reference to the • - public doe meats of the United States, in the lime, pal lic.nl;:ifly . pl WASiIINGTON; ,when, if.t,ve mi!itake tY,"the . now Pvesident, was the Secretary or f;late, who!distinttly, and in . forcible langnage,,.,'aSSerted the justice Qf the British principle, as to thnipoint in question ; although, in other respetls, he it 4 Jitrted we bad deiKirte(l from the gentralila'w. shad . Anwrica now obey' 'rance .in asserting, ni a right, the principle of " free ships tree goods,'! site will depart most grossly :mil indefensibly from h e principles which , s : he ,has publicly professed for ai I,ait fOurteeti . Ab rye Fr.inco, 'it 14' worth while to set pr o vlng that she has no right to complain of the tatitirnent. of, Neutiaig. It is suffitivnt to men tiun, that t t o thou has either the Iloyal, Itepnb- Lean, -or Imperial Government 'of France the principle abotlt which her probe t, Itukr an Wittliming 1164 e. .. iropnuruom for further rcmarks;att , t he Lettpr uf cttI,TET, which aecorripatil.ed 1 the .tiov Dcere.e, de:;erves a care o 1 perusal ; it clearly; evinces tpe eatcacy of the measures., of r e stritii o n which . have adopted. We cannot 'cionclutle • 'theile few •remarks without protehting ttgainst the proposition contained in a' Morning • Vaper,', that the Filiances of this. Count r y are not, 4 very extended foreign Commerce, cam. iwtent to defray the Interest of the National Debt ) , or to carry ors an expensive War.' Some inconvenience will, no doubt, be sustained, but iubuitely less a : }he 4Oppobi ti on WTI ter • at. tati pt s .to permed', lIS, or than: will be experienced by our Enetnies—Fratioe,' Spoil), Holland, Den "(lark, and Rnabia. , • • , • N AVAL' NEWS afrn the LONDGN GriZETTt, 2, 134,3. Admiraly-Office Jan. 2,1808 d ExtraCl Lett4r frims` Admiral the Right lion. • Lori Gardizer,l Cantjnanler , in Chief of his 11a .4elity's Ships atiti Vessels in 1,14 Channel, Sound ings, &c. to the'Honourable If', Pole, dated on board4lis Majesty's Ship Ville de Paris, in Tor , bay, the.aist .Dedeniber, 1807. . Inclosed 1 transmit, for their Lordship's infrlrma tion, a Letter from Captain Atkins, of his Majesty's Ship Seine, giving an account of the capture by the above Ship, on the 26th instant, of theTrenob Lugger Privateer La Sybille, belonging to,Morlaix pieiZed for 14 gung, (but only one on, board), and having on board tarty-three men. . _ Seine, at Sea, December ,26, 1807, in Lat. 49. 27. 'lr. Long. - 8, /I< . . r s...OßD—P.A.fter a short Chace this Afternoon' :Niajesty's 'Ship Oiler my cotuinand captured 3 , French' Lugger Priliateer; Sybille; pierced for 14 - . _ . guns, 'Out had only one.fong gnu on boaid, with swivels and rnusquetr,) and '43' men. ,Slit is a very fine fast sailing new Vessel, of large dimen sions, belonging - to iNforlaix, has been mit fiv* days,' and, am happy to add, without rualting,any cap ture. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) D. ATKINS, Captain. To the Right Honourable Admiral Lord • ' Gardher, &c. &c. • Admiralty-Office, An, 2; 1808. Copy o f it Letter from. Vire-4 dmiral Dacres, ooth mandee in Chief of his illgjestys Skips and T'issets at Jamaica, to the Hon. IV U. hole, dated on loard his Majesty's Sloop Shark, Port'Royal, I:}th Oaoher, 1807: SIR-I have the honour, to inclose to you, for the information of the Lords CommissionerS of the Admiralty, the copy - of Letter I have rec6ved from Captain Inglefield, of the Baechante p acquaint ing Me, of the capture of the Spanish Privateer J‘..aior de la Patria, by that Ship and the stein Deer. Lam, :4c. (Signed) • . J.II..DACRES. His Majesty's Ship Bacchante, YalThlis Point, N. E. 14 N three Leagues, Sept. 13, 1807. Sin—l have the honour to inform you, .at eleven A. M.113 1 1s morning, we discovered • ills Majesty's Sloop Rein.beer in. cline to windward of a .suspi cious Schooner, coming down bet re the wind, awl at half-past one shewing Spanish colours ; and find ing she tould not escape, cut WI, (from our being to Leeward) she struck, and•proves to be the Spanish Privateer, Amor de la Patria, belonging to St. Jago, I•Captairi-Josse•de.Tournecy, armed with three guns, .'and 63 men, out five days, - and, am happy to add, 1 has not .captured any thing. • • • , have the honOur.to he; (Signed) • • S. W. INGLEFIELD. To J.. B.,Dacres - , Esq. Vice-Adwiral ( 2 f • • the White, &e. &c. • . • Admiralty Office, January ,t 808 Copy of a Letter from Admiral Montagu, Coni mander• in Chid' of his Majesty's ships and Pesiels at Portsmouth and. Spit/wad; to ae Hon. 11"*. W. Pole, dated on board, kis 411ajesty's Ship Royal ',Miam i . at-Spi;head, 29th Dec.. 1807. Sta-13e. pleased to- lay'before the Lords Com missioners ot. the Admiralty the incloseclLetter from. Captain Main,. of his Majesty's Ship desistance, Stating his having fell in with, and captured, after a Chace of eight hours, L'Aigle French Lugger Priva teer, I have the. honour to be, &c 7 (Signed). • G, MONTAGU. Resistance, Cape . Ratilerir, Dec. 28, 1807. Ste-4 have to acquaint you, 'that yesterday, at Sunset, the Ower's Light bearing North four or five Miles, Majesty's Ship under my command Jell in with a large Lugger Privateer, -and, after a Chace of eight hours, I had the sati,laetion to capture her, Close in with Cape Barfleur. She proves to be L'Aigie,. of Dieppe, Vincent Pouchin Commander, I of 14 guns, and 66 m en , i s only a few 'mouths' old, and appears to be 'a very fine vessel. she has been three days from Barfleur, without making any capture. I ani, • (Signed) CHARLES ADAM, Captain. Admiral Montagu, &c. &c. Portsmouth. Admiralty Oji:ce, Jiinuary 2, 1808. F i xtraa if a Letter from. Captain Robert Bolles, of hivillajOsty's. ship .Lioli,to the Hon. IV. le. Pole, dated Downs,. Dec. 28, 1807 . At daylight on the 27th, land bearing North about nine or ten miles distant, which, was taken for Beachy Head, a Lugger appearing under oar lee, that bOre a very suspicious appearance,. I'cottsideTtA duty to pursue her, and after nearly a whole cry's One, and her Praaisiog.varions Manmuvres , to escape, was captured. She proves to be the La Reciprocite French Privateer,_ at 1 . 4-ons; , sud . ended the 25th trim Dieppa,. in con any with another of the Cafe kind,. which hove. id light the latter. .part of the chace : sheis two years . old, a fist and .her crew, composed . of 45 men, are French, Protishms, Portuguese, SWedes, Danes, and Ameri cans, These two Vea! , els have been lying .under }3eachy Head since...the aboVe time, • hut, made no eapturei. - - . . . Cazette contains a Proclamation -of liiir,:tvlajesty,. t L . 0. 4; the 23(1 tilt, tar the I.)i'Arilit(tion of Russian Nizes during the prescia los;ilities, It is in the usual form; anti altertieclAting his Majesty's itCritiriciatimi at his' Right to such. Prizes, it autho!•ke4. tI a Sale of them, when tipsi jitiiicinion has passitl. The Sh i res 4re:to he in thu same pro ! , portions as already " ' SHEEttriCss, JAN. his Wl;tiegiy's Sinop Peacock, of IR ttlinl . , Copt. PEAtsc. One hundred and sixty men, late or the Canada, of 74 guns,. paid , oti at Chatham, were sent on board the sea, for the Ship at the Norte' ; were 00 7 cordinglyr.sent to the .I;ennid,qs, .Sparrnw, Hawke, Li Belair„. and Undaunted. JAN. 2,—Arrived the Quail' Schooner, Licute ,..l tilt J . C. S. CoLmyr, from the,North Sett: '),Vent out of Harbour, and sailed dined fur the pawns, the Eclipse Sloop, of 18 guns * , Captain CABYS.E. JAR. 3,--Came down from Chatham the Guer e, of 38 guns, Capt. SKEENE, andibronght upat the. Little Nore; she is manning with all possible disftatch from the. Namur and !ruche?sea, and ex, Paled to sail in , a few days. 4c ; - Sailed the Flamer Gun-brig to peal. FALMOUTH, JAN. I.—Arrived this day the Vir ginie, - 44 guns, capclin Schooner,-and-King George Cutter, from a cruize. The Ship Thais, Bunn, frotn London for St. Kitts, parted with the Fleet in 'A gale of windfive days since; on. the following morning say.tleyeral Sail: spoke the. 28th ult: His Majesty's Ship Astrea. It is reported that His Majesty's Skip Swallow, Capt. MiLbra . , is lost near Scilly, and all the_crew. Yesterday , put in .hefe 'the • Minotaur; 74 guns, Adniiral Sir C. tOTTON, the Antelope, 50 . guns, an Butavie Frigate, with, about twenty. Transports,,ansports,, ing. part of the Expedition under General SPENCZIC which were separated on the 28th . 01f . : in' a ' tjiolei~E gale . olwind : the remainder tire tipposed to have gone:for Plymouth or Ttir,;.. . • Also arrived yesterday' the Mare Cutter, Captain, r. VINNICOMBE, and has.detained and brought in with .her the American Schooners 'Gtorge, LowAau, for New Oilcans, and Mciniing Star, STACY, :for New London; ' both frOm' Bourdeanx, ; with wine and brandy. The Mars , has also 'detained' the Ship SILLER m 4;4 , Iron Bouidcaux, with brandy and \ti i e, for Philadelphia. 'ANOTIIER IETTE.II ) SAME DATE. • _ A Sloop of War Brig also 'foundered in the storm,: off' the Land'S•lend, and all on - board perished. - Sit'e is supposed to be the 'Swallow. , In the eastern part of the Mount's Bay, near Mullion, an American Ship is said to have founder. , ed, and all on board perished. We expe& to hear • • , • of many more shipwrecks, as the storms during, kite • . • present Week have' been nothing less than hurri canes ; and several Vessels have no doubt foundered that. will never More be heard The appKehensions we exPreS - Sed'in our last, that Sir CHARLES COTTON would be compelled to return. to Falmouth. or. Plymouth, proves but too well , founded: The Convoy, we-no* find, wer& . 'enteg l ' 'lig the Bay of Biscay, When on the '.947th they were dispersed in a "Violbnt gale.. 'On Wednesday la *re of the Transports (one of them the Richard) arrived at Falmouth ; and on Thursday Sir Cn Ali LES Com*, in thb Minotaur, accompanied by the .4ntielope, 50; and abut 20 •Transports more, also entered Falmouth Harbour, where they now lie. We cannot state the exalt number of this =Vey, when it sailed; but we are Apprehensive that not More than one half of them have returned . to Fal- Mouth, 'though we tru-it dig many others have been driVen up Channel and reached the Eastern Ports. Whether the objeft. of this Expedition vas to assist in the deStrnaign of-the Russian Fleet ik the Tagus, in the capture of the Island of Ceuta, irk: thehornbardment of Cadiz, or what else'; we feat•l „the nation has but little to hope frem it sow, as long time must necessarily elapse .before it can be. collated, reorganised, and proceed again to sea. Tauno, JAN. 2. ; The, following particulars of the unflrtunate loss of the Arson, are given chiefly on the'iuthority of the Officer 4 who were saved.— The -Lon, as we last week ieported, sailed from • Falmouth on Christmas-eve, for, her station otf the Black-rocks, as one of the look-out Frigates of the Channel Fleet. In the violent storm of Monday, blowing about W. to S. W. she stood.across the en,,: trance of the , Channel towards Scilly, • made' the Land's-end, which they miitook liir the Lizard, ma: bore up, as they thought. for Falmouth: , Still doubtful, howeVer, in the evening of Mon-' , day Captain l.yorkno stood off again to the , Southward ;.,. when a consultation being held, it was once more yesolved to bear up for .Falmouth. Run. nlng.Eastwayd ajid Northward, still .under. the faill . perstiasion•that the Lizard was'on the North-west of them'{ they did not discover their till_miitlk m "e - the a OD- the., look-out ahead, called out---- " Breakers.!" The ship was instantaneously broach ed ;o, and the best bower let go, which happily a, 1 brought her up , but the rapidity with which t he, cable had veered out made it impossible, to serve ityi and it soon parted is the hawse-hole. • The sheet ,Inehor . Was. then let go, which also" brought up the Ship ; but after riding .end-on for , a short time, this cable parted, froth the same'canse, about ' , eight in the morning, . and the Ship wont plump au shore, upon the rid& of sand which tiepa rates the Loe-pool from the bay; Never did the sea run more tremendeusly' high. : It broke over the Ship's.rnasts, which soon weot by the board ; the main. -mast forming . a floating ratt l'rcro the Ship to the shore ; and the greater part' of those who escaped passed by this medium. One .of the men saved reports, that Capt. LY twat) was near him on the main -mast'; but be- seemed to have lost the use of hts facilities with hor ror of the scene, and soon disappeared. We have rot room to go further into particulars ) nor language that will convey an adeinate ph me of the terrifis view that presented itself. At a tine when no one appeared on the ship's tleoc, 'edit was supposed the work of 'death had •ceased, 4 Arethodist preacher, venturing his live "tbtiittrough the , surf, got on board over the wreck of 4 mainmast, to see if any more remained ; some honeSt hearts followed him. They- found several 'persons-still who could'net get up; among whom were two women and two children: . It; • , worthy Preacher and his party saved the two WO . tueti and some of ',the:. men, but the children were lost. . , About two p. m. the Ship went to .pieces ; when a few more men, 2 wholor some crime had been colt fined in irons below, emerged from the wreck. On 6 -Otlthese was saved.' three o'cloCk no appearance •Ltithe Vessel remained. She was an old Ship (a 64, Wt: belle* cut down), which accounts for her beg,' ing to pieces,sO soon °rya sandy bottom. The men who survived were conveyed to Helston; about twit) miles distant, where they were . taken carp of b , the Magistrates, and afterwards sent to Falmouth in charge of the Regulating • Captain, at that Port. We are aware that general report has stated the an tuber droWned to be gieater than we have £iivcn it; but of the missing, we tinder:stem: many are tle-t serters, who scampered otl.as soon as they readied; the shore. .Amoni. the Otteers saved, we' have: heard of the loll Owing.: Capt. SULLIVAN . , a Pas4enr! ger ; Messrs. HILL and BRAILY, Midshipmen; IVN Assistant-Surgeon, , and some others, " P kc PoRTSM . OUTIT, JAN: 3.—Arrived yesterday t 1 IViobe Frigate, Capt o„ and „Brilliant Friv Clapt: SMITH, from a crniie; and .. - Furu 13oin1 Capt. GIBSON, .from the Downs. Sailed the Daring Gun-brig, Lieut. G. HAY to the Westward. Arrived this day the. Encounter, Lieut. TALBOI and Conquest, Lieut. BoswE4l,:i3uti-brigs, from cruize and the Avenger Sloop et War, Capt.. WHITE, from Newfoundland. Went otit of .Harbour yesterday the Diana Fri** gate,:Capt. •Gats,: , i'r, and Sha4shooter Gun -brig,* g oLDIt. ArroittiTmENr3.---Capt. MAULIE is promoted t? a Post-o.iptain, and to command the. Delieis/e, 1 ei"OCHRANE'I Flag Ship;' Lieut. Dix is pro d moted to a Cornmander,,andto command the net ; liaoct is promoted to a Cotnman Capt. NORTIIEY is appointed Regulating' Offi Liinerick Mr. T. GILLETT to be Pers;:r o Pirin4 ; WT. READ to be Purser of the slur, PLYMoUriI, -JAN. 2.--The Nancy . SOlio Capt. HARvEio i r; laden with . fiih and: oil, from foundland, bound to Poole, was driven on Sho. Thursday evening in a violent gale ut wind;an tally wrecked-}—some part of the cargo has ! a i 'rte Portuguese Ship Fanm, from the Bi iyintyoatwater, which made signals of distr 11,141:e afternoon, owing to her haying . d )iteE,be Shore, fortunately rode 6 u t . thp gate 1 is rio'w moored in Safety, the gale having abate terday morning, and the weather' has since nued moderate. Arrived . the Aid and Ceres, two of the Tran ~• forming . a part of the Fleet under the Comma. -Admiral COTTON, which have been dispersed driven back by the late severe gales. The M' War, and the greater part of the Transports w to have put into FalMouth. . Aitiived the Harnburgh Ship Johannah; itit ki heat, from Archangel ; hound to Oporto tattled by,,the John Bull Privateer. • The • • . • '-:, .following is a list of the Troops on board the 1 1 ' 1 -) ran4ports e d arrive at the Cove of Cui•k. They ar ) said to consist of nearly 5000 men A detachment of the Royal Artillery, commanded. by Col. Stretch; 6th Dragoons,' or Carbineers, by Major Higgins ' _ gth Light Drago ons , by ... ...-- ;, 17t 4 Li g h t D ragoon ,. by Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd. Filth Regiment, cointnanded by Lientedant.Colonel Davy ; 36th, by Lieutenant-Coionel Brune ; 35th, by •Li en ieninit- Colonel.Negent ; 4oth, by Lieutenant. Colonel Brown ; 45 r 11, by Lieutenant- Cotonel Garde ; 74st, Major Tony. The 3d. Garrison Battalion, under the ‘ummand of Liel"" • natit-Colonel Nedham, proceeded on Monday the 213th ult. ' from Dungarvon to New Geneva. : - COtlin LYDIARD, who so unfortunately perished !fist ,week with his Majesty's late ship Anson, in lionntilk Bay, was one of those brave Officers who up gallantl*,entered•the harbour of.Curacoa, and st) premptlpeaptureUthat island. Captain LYDIAni, s;taii.thy. tbs Anson till the'last, and had nearly reach., ski the shore, when, lamentable to state, a returning wtive,:washed him back under the ship; and .41 0 sunk in the sight of many friends with whom.. be had just Wore been spending the Christmas. CHO tain SLILLIVAF, Who was taking a cruize in the 54' is saved, With the Second Lieutenant, the Master/ and the Purser , ; the - Iliird.Lieur e nam w a s ahsein . . in a prize.- . The *son Frigate had probably been saved hull far her.boat being swamped, that was carrying a ut an anchor a-head, by which final accident the.bnat ti Crew, consisting of twelve men, perished, and soon utter the Ship drifted on the rocks, and a lmost in - ' stantiy went to pieces. • • . . i dTithistinso'n. was 'bitilt' in . ; Plymouth Dock. Yar d 0. - .47itilik its, a • tl4-gun Ship;.und was in 21.414 131 1 ° ! T ittorY ovlt the French Fleet on.the glorious tgul I . . Pt +APtit.ll) tihe same year i . s . he . was - attel:Wardi cut Own as a liazee of 44 guns, ,and has been in Co l " tai eAploy wed t.e ve i Since; :She was an allla i:' nig birgnk_Ship of licr class, alld-..oo6:pmiderud by nautical 'men a-line Man Of - Wit. -‘' ' ' Cyg- :', lodor i ~• ' icer se... of 00 rora. , Donut( , New- ore ea ad le- ; barn ',;azils, reds ell d k ifte4l !, r.nd :d yes' 9ooti• ,sports • and of ed and , Wen of ire 'said LidLo to, di:- e •